At 6:35 PM -0400 2005-06-13, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Too bad no one has servers in 100s or even a 1000 or more ISPs in dozens of countries with TCP connections to a statistically significant portion of the Internet on a daily basis who could possibly measure, say, RTT (not sure why TTL is relevant) and other things, and perhaps use that along with other information to create a database that they could then give to customers who need geo-location data for their "mission critical" applications.
That would probably be pretty darned accurate.
You mean like Akamai?
Of course, that would be a "commercial service"....
You mean like Akamai?
=)
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